Take our short quiz to find out what iconic Arizona Sonoran Desert animal you are. Click here to see the other animals you were not. Victoria Teplitz is a reporter for Arizona Sonora News, a service from the School of Journalism with the University of Arizona. Contact her at vteplitz@email.arizona.edu
Lexi Noble, a 10th-grader in the Flagstaff Unified School District, had little time to prepare for a prototype of Arizona’s new civics exam. Her AP World History teacher emailed “us the study questions the day before we took it,” she said. “I was not even aware we were taking the test until I got the email.”…
Many rural Arizona schools lack the proper funds to start or expand their AP programs, including Tombstone High School, which lacks any such classes, and educators say this can be a serious detriment to students preparing for college. “We used to want the kids to go to college and be successful,” said Andrea Overman, Douglas High…
Having greatly improved the lives of those around them and at times elevated entire communities, the women listed below are Arizona women of color who have, locally and nationally, made history. From Northern Arizona to the Southwest, many of these women are educators, others community activists, and most do both. Maria Urquides (1908 – 1994)…
The absence of on-campus daycare centers, the cost of tuition, and a traditional university structure are factors that tend to isolate single mothers attending college and challenge their success. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, there are over 2 million single mothers attending college in the United States. Women with children tend to…
